From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-129859-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1RFXdm-0001r9-3q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:49:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8F3521C131; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7624D21C0B1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64553 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Oct 2011 20:48:00 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9519BFA.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.155.250]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:59 +0200 Received: (qmail 3101 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 2011 20:43:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:43:23 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My X11 mouse icons have acquired unwanted borders. Help! Message-ID: <20111016204323.GA3014@acm.acm> References: <20111016101536.GA3168@acm.acm> <CAMix8LG2mzndFx=Gk9DTQWrgZw_H6Y8_tUk9Nqs1PBT-w8BXeA@mail.gmail.com> <20111016122811.GB3168@acm.acm> <CAMix8LHu_9+Z4+6+igiLY9YLzZUFsrRYq9z_gPibkMpY-6cAkQ@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <CAMix8LHu_9+Z4+6+igiLY9YLzZUFsrRYq9z_gPibkMpY-6cAkQ@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 95432cfd78690991b27041526833dc12 On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Jes=FAs J. Guerrero Botella wro= te: > 2011/10/16 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>: > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:41:21PM +0200, Jes=FAs J. Guerrero Botella= wrote: > That probably confirms it's not a gnome issue. The cursor is an X > thing, in any case. > >> Also, did you update the driver (whatever it is) recently? > > Ah. =A0I synched yesterday, and a massive number of packages were upd= ated, > > among them xorg-drivers. =A0That'll be it, I suppose. > That package is kind of a wrapper around the driver packages, which > are many. You install xorg-drivers as a dependency of xorg-server, and > depending on your VIDEO_CARDS settings in make.conf the relevant > driver packages are also pushed as dependencies into your system. My setting is 'VIDEO_CARDS=3D"radeonhd radeon"'. I've got two there because I was never sure which one was the right one. I've got a card based on a Radeon HD4550 ;-( > > Presumably I can configure these drivers somewhere, perhaps in > > ~/.xinitrc? =A0Is there any documentation for this? > Let us know what your driver is ... Not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean my VIDEO_CARDS? Other than that, I've got two binary blobs in my kernel, radeon/R600_rlc.bin and radeon/R700_rlc.bin. (Again, I'm not sure which is the correct one.) > ... so we can give more concrete details. But video drivers, just like > any other thing that's part of X, can be configured at > /etc/X11/xorg.conf or, more recently, in separate files under > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. I'll go for a monolithic config rather than a fragmented one. :-) > Some drivers (like, again, the nvidia binary one) do ship tools that > can help you configure the driver by writing to these files via a GUI > frontend. The concrete options that you can put into this files depend > on the concrete driver. For example, the man page for my driver > (xf86-video-ati) can be seen by using > # man radeon > There I can see all the available options. > If you let us know what driver are you using, then maybe someone who's > familiar with your driver can provide you with more accurate help. > --=20 > Jes=FAs Guerrero Botella --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).